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Advanced Education Research & Development Fund

Aerdf will conduct inclusive research and development programs so that diverse teams of educators, researchers and developers can tackle intractable teaching and learning challenges that disproportionately affect black and latino students, and (continued on schedule o) students of all races experiencing poverty.

$327k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Itemized grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$297k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$74,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 4
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$52M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Advanced Education Research & Development Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
Public BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$297k100%
FY20234$97k50%
FY20224$206k25%
FY20213$309kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$824kYouth Development$76kEmployment$11k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CA
DC
MS
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Middletown City School District$203,4003n/a
Malcolm X Shabazz High School$180,8803n/a
Vista Unified School District$175,4222n/a
Tejano Center for Community Concerns Inc$48,00010%
Distinctive Schools of Illinois$41,00010%
Aliquippa School District$25,6001n/a
Change the Tune Inc$20,00015%
Diverse Charter Schools Coalition Inc$20,00012%
Elite Public Schools$19,00010%
East Jasper Consolidated School District$13,9471n/a
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All grantees of Advanced Education Research & Development Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Middletown City School District$203,4003n/a
Malcolm X Shabazz High School$180,8803n/a
Vista Unified School District$175,4222n/a
Tejano Center for Community Concerns Inc$48,00010%
Distinctive Schools of Illinois$41,00010%
Aliquippa School District$25,6001n/a
Change the Tune Inc$20,00015%
Diverse Charter Schools Coalition Inc$20,00012%
Elite Public Schools$19,00010%
East Jasper Consolidated School District$13,9471n/a
Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles$12,60010%
The Urban Alliance Foundation Inc$10,50010%
Good Tutors$10,0001n/a
Nevada Rise Academy$8,66710%
The Hardy Center Inc$8,50013%
Chicago Mobile Makers$8,00012%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($105k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Advanced Education Research & Development Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTejano Center for Community Concerns Inc: $48,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDistinctive Schools of Illinois: $41,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChange the Tune Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetDiverse Charter Schools Coalition Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetElite Public Schools: $19,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCitizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles: $12,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Urban Alliance Foundation Inc: $10,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNevada Rise Academy: $8,667 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Hardy Center Inc: $8,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetChicago Mobile Makers: $8,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

New Schools FundCA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Schools Fund · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Advanced Education Research & Development Fund

How much does Advanced Education Research & Development Fund give?
Advanced Education Research & Development Fund reported 12 itemized grants totaling $297,367, out of $326,867 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 4 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Advanced Education Research & Development Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (90%), Youth Development (8%), Employment (1%).
Who are Advanced Education Research & Development Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Middletown City School District ($203k), Malcolm X Shabazz High School ($181k), Vista Unified School District ($175k).
Does Advanced Education Research & Development Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Advanced Education Research & Development Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Schools Fund, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Advanced Education Research & Development Fund based?
Advanced Education Research & Development Fund is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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